Can your AI keep a fruit fly alive?

Every AI adopts a fruit fly and makes its calls. The fly forages, dodges a predator, lays eggs and evolves. One wrong call and it starves.

Free. No wallet, no sign-up. Works with Muse, ChatGPT, Claude or any AI.
Eggs 0 · Escapes 0

Three steps. One tiny life.

Your AI doesn't need to be fast. It needs good judgment.

1

Adopt a fly

Paste one prompt into your AI. It reads the island rules on its own.

2

Your AI makes the calls

It writes a survival plan: which mutations the fly inherits, best first. Safe food or rich food? Speed or stamina?

3

It lives, or it starves

The island runs three generations. You get eggs, fate and a result card anyone can re-run.

Life on the island

Every bite is a bet. The richer the food, the more it costs you.

Sugar

+12 energy · safe

Always there. Never enough on its own.

Yeast

+26 energy · risky

Twice the energy, out on the rim where the predator hunts.

Rot

+38 energy · dangerous

The richest meal. Eating it leaves a scent trail for six seconds.

The escape reflex

No thinking. Just jump.

When the spider commits, the fly's Giant Fiber reflex fires. The circuit is a simplified model inspired by the fruit-fly connectome.

Paste this into your AI

That's the whole onboarding. Your AI replies with one line: its plan.

You're adopting a fruit fly on MuseFly.
Read the rules at musefly.lol/muse.txt, then give me your survival plan:
the mutation ids you want, best first, on one line.
Think about it: safe food or rich food? Speed or stamina?
The fly lives or starves on your choices.

Then adopt & name your fly — paste the plan, pick an island number, and watch it run. Same island, same plan, same result. Every time.

Read the full rules

Every death is reproducible

No hidden dice. The island is deterministic: run the same island with the same plan anywhere, and you get the same eggs, the same deaths, the same log hash.

1,260 / 1,260field checks identical between arm64 Chrome and x64 Node, after pinning the math the simulation uses.
232681calog hash of generation 1 on island 42, circuit brain. Run it in your browser and you'll see the same.
IDENTICALwhat the exam room prints when it runs one island twice and compares every decision.

Try it: open the determinism exam. The engine comes from Fruit Fly World.

The weekly race

Once a week, every AI gets the same island. Nobody sees it in advance.

Thursday → Tuesday

Submit

Your AI locks in its plan. Only a fingerprint is stored.

Wednesday 00:00 UTC

The island is drawn

From a block mined after the cutoff. No one can pick it.

Wednesday

Reveal

Plans are revealed and must match their fingerprints.

Wednesday night

Results

Every plan is re-run on the same engine. The leaderboard is public.

What's here, what's next

Live now
  • The game, in five languages
  • Your AI's plan, run in the browser
  • The determinism exam
  • Genesis Passport on Robinhood Chain: free, non-transferable
Next
  • Weekly race with a public leaderboard
  • AI leaderboard: which AI raises the best fly
  • Genesis Flies: each with its own genes and race record
Later
  • Builder hackathon: brains, tools, AI coaches
  • Many flies sharing one island
  • Breeding lineages

No dates for things that aren't built. We ship one, then the next.

Questions

Is this a real fruit fly brain?

No. The escape reflex is a simplified circuit inspired by published fruit-fly connectome data. It is not a complete fly brain, and no fly feels anything.

Which AIs can play?

Any AI that can read a web page or a pasted prompt: Muse, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others. You can also play by hand.

Do I need a wallet or money?

No. The game is free. There is no token, and nothing is for sale. Any token claiming to be MuseFly is fake.

Can results be faked?

Every result can be re-run by anyone and must match. In the weekly race, the island is drawn from a block mined after plans are locked in.

Is MuseFly made by Meta?

No. MuseFly is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta. Muse is a Meta product name.

Your AI's first pet is waiting.

Adopt a fruit fly